Subject: I just want to brose my network!

From: "jim" <jim@home.net>
news:<oa%2k.1645$s77.327@bignews3.bellsouth.net>

Dammit! I want so badly to get the hell away from Windows, that I am
spending ALL of my spare time trying out different Linux distros.

I tried xubuntu for a day or so - bad graphics.

I tried backtrack - not all that it's cracked up to be.

I am now trying Ubuntu 8.04 and I'll just be damned if the simple stuff
isn't still hard in Linux!!

This is what I would like.... With my XP Pro laptop, connecting to a
wireless network and browsing shared folders was as easy as clicking
"Connect to network" slecting the wireless network and clicking "Connect".
If there was a required key or password, Windows asked for it. You supply
the info and Windows simply connects to the network.

You can then open Windows Explorer and browse any shared folders that are
not password protected.

This is BASIC functionality that ALL Windows users NEED. What the hell is
this samba configuration crap?

I must be missing something here.

PLEASE tell me I am missing something here and that connecting to a network
and browsing shared folders really IS just as easy in Linux as in Windows.

jim

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Re: I just want to brose my network!

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